SurfControl Plc., was a British software company based in Cheshire, England.
[1] On 2 April 2008, Websense sold CyberPatrol, the SurfControl parental control software product, to newly formed Internet safety software company CyberPatrol, LLC.
[2] According to Websense's quarterly report, they received $1.4 million in cash from the sale of CyberPatrol assets.
The key feature of the SurfControl filtering software is the ability to categorize websites and then allow or restrict users access by selecting categories.
Examples of the categories are: SurfControl also license their URL database and categorization engine to other companies such as Check Point and Novell for use in their products and appliances.